It’s nearly 2 am here and I should be abed, but this is important. I’ll make it a quickie.
There is a lot of stealth fuckwittery being spouted by the antivax brigade. As an example, take self-styled investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson. She recently shat out a rant on the ongoing measles outbreak in California, a hotbed of organic quinoa detox fiends of ever there was one. Unlike the more insane antivaxers, though, she is prepared to admit that measles isn’t a laughing matter. However, she is just as prepared to massage the figures and even tell complete porkies if it suits her position. Let’s pick them out:
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There is a lot of stealth fuckwittery being spouted by the antivax brigade. As an example, take self-styled investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson. She recently shat out a rant on the ongoing measles outbreak in California, a hotbed of organic quinoa detox fiends of ever there was one. Unlike the more insane antivaxers, though, she is prepared to admit that measles isn’t a laughing matter. However, she is just as prepared to massage the figures and even tell complete porkies if it suits her position. Let’s pick them out:
But CDC says one in four will become so sick, they have to be hospitalized. In the California outbreak, CDC reports a slightly lower hospitalization rate of 20%.Dishonest. The sample consisted of 84 patients at that time. That’s tiny. Nobody would claim … Continue reading
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